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December 12, 2006, Tuesday

Spring will begin on Tuesday, but despite the change of seasons, a pall will be hanging over Union Square. Late last month, a man was charged with destroying plants in the park, and whether or not he is responsible for the destruction, for...

June 11, 2005, Saturday

A famous pear tree planted in the mid-1600's by Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, at what is now the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street, died a very New York death. It was 1867 and the neighborhood was well on...

November 9, 2003, Sunday

Central Park is New York's Twilight Zone -- and not just at dusk. Noirish things happen there. A dog can be murdered by a swan. When Donna Karan's Jack Russell terrier, Petey, swam too close to a nest on the lake island three years ago, the panicked...

May 23, 2003, Friday

Newly detailed allegations have been made that the New York City Parks and Recreation Department, when it was led by Commissioner Henry J. Stern, fostered a racially hostile work environment for black and Hispanic employees. The allegations were...

November 28, 2002, Thursday

An Actor's Sort of Joke There are those -- the reporters who covered the New York premiere of the cold war thriller ''K-19: The Widowmaker'' on Thursday, for example -- who would say that HARRISON FORD, left, is kind of like Mount Rushmore:...

July 19, 2002, Friday

ON Feb. 3, Henry J. Stern, 66, stripped to the waist at Orchard Beach, presided over the annual plunge of the members of the Polar Bear Club and thus, with his public jester's cap still firmly in place, performed his last official act as the city's...